Cortney's Crew

Well it's been over a month since I posted last. I've just really been struggling with life and trying to make myself accomplish/do ANYTHING!! I would definitely say I am suffering from PPD . I can't imagine how bad it would be if I wasn't already medicated to begin with. We have upped my dosage on my Prozac twice now, and finally I think I see some sort of difference. I'm hoping that I don't have to up it again, that this last change will be all I need, but I guess if I do need more...oh well, mostly I just really want to feel like myself and the sooner the better! I'm very glad for Prozac because right now most of what I'm dealing with is just a lack of interest and lack of motivation. A little depression, but really not much. When I had it with Alexandra it was horrible. It had gotten to the point of crazy lady gonna kill people, when I was finally diagnosed (finally asked for help!) and they put me on medication. I think if I had not been o...

My friend Jami is starting a new blog with book reviews. I think it's a great idea! I read way too much and sometimes run out of books, and now I'll have a new place to find new authors! She is having a give-away for the start of her new blog. It is The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans. She's going to do the drawing Monday morning, so if you'd like to enter, or just want another blog to follow click here .

Wow! I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post. Ok, I can believe it because I know how crazy my month has been. A few weeks ago I had some moles removed. They ended up being benign!! Thank goodness! I was pretty worried especially about one of them. And now I'm just waiting for the stinking spots to heal. It's getting there but they are still itching, and it seems I'm allergic to band-aids. (I have huge itchy red spots around the edges of where the band-aids touch my skin. I keep trying to reposition the band-aids in different spots, so now I have a huge, itchy, red, round circle around where the band-aids have been. I also started getting some symptoms of PPD. So they have upped my Prozac and I've been in to see the psychiatrist once already. It hasn't been bad like with Alexandra, but I'm just glad I caught it before it got that bad. My doctor said they can up it again if we need to if I don't feel like I'm at 100%...

I will be trying to update my blog today at some point, hopefully, but in the mean time if you would like to enter a drawing for free Dinosaur craft stuff, click on this link! http://toddlerboredombusters.blogspot.com/2009/09/giveaway-3-dinosaurs.html It's open for entries until tonight at 9pm.

I can't believe it's been 3 months already!! Boy time flies by! Sunday I decided she needed a bow! Unfortunately my little baldy (compared to the other two) has nothing with which I can attach hair accessories. So I improvised (with a little Caro Syrup)! She's getting stronger with her grip so we got some of her toys off her floor mat to see how she would do holding them, and of course I had to take some videos! Friday was Alexandra's teacher's birthday. So we had the whole class wear party hats and give her flowers on the way into class. They also got to have cupcakes too!

Since Dean works 2pm to 2am, he's been staying on that schedule even on his days off to take the middle of the night feeding so that I can possibly get a decent nights sleep (as long as Scarlett cooperates). Dean will stay up till about 3:30 waiting for her but if she wakes after that then she's mine. Or if she wakes up before he gets home from work. But she's been really good about waking between 2 and 3 (I think she's enjoying having some Daddy time.) Also since he's home, if Scarlett is still asleep during school drop off time (7:45) or Kindergarten pick up time (10:30) I will just leave her sleeping and turn the monitor on for him. So Wednesday morning she hadn't woken up by the time we needed to leave for school. I could tell she was about to get up because I could hear her starting to make noise. So I hurried and dropped the girls off and came home and she was just waking up when I got home. I got her up and changed the fullest diaper she's ever had (1...

So today was the "Real" 1st day of school. Here are pictures of the girls in their new "Grammy-Made Dresses". If you click on the picture (it should give you a big picture) you can see the designs on the material better. Alexandra's is an ABC Raggedy Ann and Andy print (perfect for a 1st day at school dress - I think I had one that was black with ABC's on it one year too!) and Riley's has dragonflies (bugs for our Riley-bug.) And they did a flag ceremony again this year. Here are pictures of Alexandra. And I had trouble finding Riley in the huge crowd of kids, but I got a picture of her as they were headed back to their classrooms. They both had great days! Although Alexandra was upset at the end of her day. They had homework over the weekend to put 5 items in a brown lunch bag for a show-and-tell about themselves. Well, what show-and-tell about Alexandra would be complete without some sort of Pokemon? They didn't get through the whole class, so they...